New York to Los Angeles nonstop
Yes: American, JetBlue and Delta fly direct from New York (JFK) to Los Angeles (LAX) about 28 times a day, year-round.
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New York to Los Angeles in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,475 miles nonstop, about 5 hr 40 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year, a steady 192 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 199 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 201 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 198 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 197 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 176 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 167 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 190 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 199 flights a week
- May 2026: 194 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 190 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 192 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 198 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- American 34%, JetBlue 34%, Delta 32% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 30,586 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $200 and $450 one way, median $300. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $275 one way, middle half $225 to $450, 27,730 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $325 one way, middle half $200 to $525, 30,422 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $175 to $425, 23,581 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $300 one way, middle half $200 to $450, 30,586 tickets
Jul to Sep and Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $275 one way) and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $325), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Los Angeles to New York nonstop.
Other airports near New York with nonstops to Los Angeles
Within about 100 miles of John F. Kennedy International Airport
Also nonstop from New York (JFK)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- San Francisco (SFO) about 19 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 13 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 12 times a day
- Miami (MIA) about 11 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 11 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 10 times a day
- San Juan (SJU) about 10 times a day
- Fort Lauderdale (FLL) about 9 times a day
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